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Happy 235th birthday, Los Angeles [Sept. 4 — definitely a Virgo]! Instead of getting gifts, we’re giving them. L.A. has bestowed all kinds of new words on the world — not just movie-business terms like “hot set” and the red-carpet posing practice known as “step and repeat,” but “surface street” and “Orange Curtain.” The Los Angeles Library Foundation’s project “Hollywood Is a Verb” looked at the venerable Oxford English Dictionary through polycarbonate wraparound shades and asked Angelenos to suggest distinctly SoCal words — even beyond the 400 or so traced to California newspapers and already enshrined in the OED. USC linguist Edward Finegan talks us...

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Happy 235th birthday, Los Angeles [Sept. 4 — definitely a Virgo]! Instead of getting gifts, we’re giving them. L.A. has bestowed all kinds of new words on the world — not just movie-business terms like “hot set” and the red-carpet posing practice known...

Colleges are supposed to be places where students are exposed to a variety of opinions. Increasingly, however, administrators and students alike are deciding that free speech on campus must be stifled lest it undermine students' fragile self-esteem. The...

With nearly three-quarters of the population spending an average of three hours a day checking their smartphones for the latest buzz, the Silicon Valley behemoths are zeroing in on news as a valuable consumer service — and revenue source.
Leveraging...

After staff cuts at regional newspapers reduced reporting in Davidson County, N.C., veteran journalist David Boraks in 2009 started an online site to fill the void. Last month, Boraks shut it down, telling his readers, "Alas, we haven't turned it into a...

A Washington Post journalist jailed in Iran on espionage and other charges for almost 10 months is scheduled to go on trial next week, his lawyer and news outlets said Tuesday.
Jason Rezaian, 39, the newspaper's bureau chief in Tehran, will face trial...

The Los Angeles Times and U-T San Diego will soon share an owner, in a bet that they can usher in a new era of newspapering in Southern California built on geographic strength in numbers.
Combining newspapers in adjacent regions has become the struggling...

Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which organized the Muhammad Art Exhibit & Contest near Dallas that led to a fatal shooting Sunday, is a staunch supporter of the cherished American freedom to do something stupid.
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Two gunmen attacked a Texas event promoting lampoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad on Sunday, wounding a security officer before being shot to death by authorities. One of the men was described as an American convert to Islam and a "wannabe" jihadist....

Nine of the country's 59 national parks are in California, the most of any state. (Los Angeles Times Library)
In 1872, Yellowstone became the United States’ – and the world’s -- first national park, beginning a period of preservation for our...

When the big announcement came, no one in the newsroom believed the paper could actually win. There was no gathering planned, no food platters, no champagne.
Then, suddenly, city editor Frank Suraci let out a scream.
"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Are you...

Los Angeles Times: 2011 Pulitzer Prizes
In bestowing the gold medal for public service, the Pulitzer judges said they were honoring The Times' "exposure of corruption in the small California city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay...

The Los Angeles Times has won two Pulitzer Prizes, American journalism’s top honor, for its coverage of California’s drought and for cultural criticism.
Staff writer Diana Marcum won the feature writing prize for her narrative portraits of farmers,...

A jailed Washington Post reporter in Iran faces four charges, including an espionage charge, his lawyer told the newspaper Monday.
Lawyer Leila Ahsan told the Post that Jason Rezaian also faces charges of “conducting propaganda against the...

A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for more than eight months is accused of "espionage" and "acting against national security," the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Sunday.
The report did not elaborate on the source of the information,...

David Laventhol, an editor and publisher who helped create the innovative Style section of the Washington Post and launch New York Newsday and guided the Los Angeles Times during a period of expansion in the early 1990s, has died. He was 81.
Laventhol,...

The retraction of a Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape has sent reverberations around the journalism industry and raised concerns about its effect on rape victims. An independent report by the Columbia Journalism Review found the piece was a...

When billions of dollars are at stake in scientific research, researchers quickly learn that optimism sells.
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Nan Tucker McEvoy, the last member of the San Francisco Chronicle's founding family to head the newspaper, died Thursday at her apartment in the city after a long convalescence. She was 95.
Her son, Nion McEvoy, publisher of Chronicle Books, confirmed...

As reported in the New York Times, Facebook may start directly hosting the content of various news websites, starting with the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic. What this means for Internet users is that instead of seeing a summary of an...

Cartoonist Irwin Hasen worked on superhero comic books starring Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern and others, but the character he helped create — a pint-sized war orphan named Dondi — needed no greater powers than gumption and wide-eyed innocence to...